Ephraim prentice



E. PRENTIOE.

V SHUTTLE BINDER FOR LOOMS.

No. 86,688. Patented Feb 9, 1 89;

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' Letters Patent No. 86,688, dated February 9,v 1869.

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To all persons to whom these presents may come.-

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM PRENT-ICE, "ofWanregan, in the county of Windham,-and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Mechanism for arresting a Shuttle'while passing into the Shuttle- Box of a Loom; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and

Instead of having a single friction-lever or shuttlebinder, arranged in the side of the shuttle-box, as is the common practice,I employ two of them, so arranged and combined that one, while being acted on by the shuttle, shall force the other up to the shuttle. I also have a means of adjusting the two with reference to the shuttle or interior of the box, as the shuttle may become worn, or may require the "binders to be moved to properly operate with it.

In the drawings, the usual binder is shown at 0, but, instead of being hinged directly to the box, it is jointedor hinged, at or near its outer end, to one end of the longer arm of an auxiliary or duplicate hinder, or lever D, and extends through the shorter arm of such lever, so as to be acted-on in the .usual manner bya spring, E, or the finger of the protector.

The auxiliary binder turns on a fulcrum, or pin, F, and has its shorter arm extended into the shuttle-box, the two levers being arranged in a slot, a, made in the side of the box.

The fiilcru1n-pin F extends up from a bracket, G,

provided with a slot, b, arranged in it at right angles with the front face of the shuttle-box.

Furthermore, the pin F has a screw, 0, cut on it, which goes through the slot b, and receives two nuts,

de, one of which is arranged in the top, and the other underneath the bracket, in manner as represented.

The spring for operating the main binder is shown at H, as fastened to it near its outer end, and as extending along the binder, and against a vertical pin, f,

- going through the shorter arm of the auxiliary binder. The single spring is thus made to answer for the two binders, and in such manner as to force the longer arm ofone inward, and theshorter arm of the other outward, at one and the same time, and thereby bring both into their proper positions in the shuttle-hox,.pre-

paratory to the entrance of a shuttle therein. They will be in such positions when the shorter arm of the auxiliary bender is brought against the part 9 of the shuttle-box.

When a shuttle is in the act of passing or being driven into and through the box, it will first come in contact with the main binder, and will gradually Three or move it outward. As the said main binder may be moved, it will, by its action on the tail of the auxiliary binder, move the latter binder on its fulcrum, so as to force its bearing-arm into the box, or toward and against the shuttle, and thus the shuttle, whilepassing into the box, will be acted on by both binders, whereby its momentum will be gradually overcome, and the shuttle will be prevented from rebounding.

discoverable by persons skilled in weaving.

.I claim the combination and arrangement of the two binders, constructed as described, with their spring, as set forth. K

I also claim the combination and arrangement of the two binders, constructed as described, with their spring, and the shuttlekbox. t

I also claim the combination of the shuttle-box with the two binders, constructed as described, and adjustable with reference to the shuttle-box, as specified.

EPHRAM PRENTIOE.

Witnesses: I

R. H. EDDY, F. P. Esme, Jr.

' The advantages of my auxiliary binder will be easily 

